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2019 should, for all intents and purposes, be the best year the Wu-Tang Clan has had in a long, long time. They have not one,…

Desert Daze is, predominantly, a psych fest -- it's in the name, location, and in their primary booking. But every year, the festival returns --…

Behold the insane power of Ween's enduring, dedicated following. On Saturday at Desert Daze, the band used most of their two-hour set time to perform…

By accident or influence, California's Desert Daze is picking up a lot of the threads that All Tomorrow's Parties left untied after they called it…

When King Crimson's debut album In The Court Of The Crimson King was released, they'd been together less than a year. The original lineup --…

About halfway through her opening set Tuesday, Leslie Feist requested a "people check" from the Schottenstein Center crowd shrouded in darkness before her. "Let's go…

Bob Seger's "might be the strangest career in the history of rock and roll," wrote Dave Marsh in his 1978 Rolling Stone profile. Two years…

In the 26 years since she released her landmark debut Exile In Guyville, Liz Phair has been witness to just about every form of lunacy…

This past Monday, Thom Yorke brought his live show to an undistinguished corporate rectangle with poor sight lines known as Express Live. On one hand,…

"Performance art" can be a dirty word. "Pretentious" and "impenetrable" are terms that may come to mind. But what about performance art by one of…

The day after Thanksgiving, my mom drove me and two friends to a theater just outside Philadelphia so that we could see Tegan And Sara…

Twenty-five years ago, a not-insignificant segment of music fans learned about the greatness of the Cars via Weezer's self-titled debut, widely known as "The Blue…

Dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit JERNK. Dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit JERNK. That's how the Cars introduced themselves on their very first single, the immortal 1978 banger "Just What I Needed." That song,…

There's a moment three episodes into Ken Burns' new eight-episode/16-hour binge-doc Country Music when I had to hit pause. Ernest Tubb, an up-and-coming country crooner…

Released 40 years ago, in 1979, and expanded in 1980, the "Nurse With Wound List" has cast a long, indelible shadow for experimental music fans…